Today is the sixty-fifth anniversary of Stalin’s massacre at Katyn Forest, in which he wiped out much of the officer corps of the Polish military.
After Kofi’s Job?
Amir Tehari says that Bill Clinton is burnishing his credentials:
…here is what Clinton had to say in a recent television interview with Charlie Rose:
After Kofi’s Job?
Amir Tehari says that Bill Clinton is burnishing his credentials:
…here is what Clinton had to say in a recent television interview with Charlie Rose:
After Kofi’s Job?
Amir Tehari says that Bill Clinton is burnishing his credentials:
…here is what Clinton had to say in a recent television interview with Charlie Rose:
A Mighty Wind Is Blowing
Breaking the Winds of Freedom. Iowahawk has the breaking details:
To be sure, the revival of People Power in the Middle East is not all due to MoveOn. We must give credit where credit is due. The people of the region have also drawn courage from other role models, like visionary filmmaker Michael Moore; respected intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and Ward Churchill; political trailblazer Dr. Howard Dean; and elected leaders like Ted Kennedy and Maurice Hinchey. These are just some of the fearless dreamers and tireless doers who show, by example, how ordinary folks can speak out up to corrupt fundamentalist dictators.
They’re blowing you and blowing me. Heh.
“I Want A Moon Base”
Whatever the merits of the case, Walt would seem to have a novel defense for his tax avoidance:
He was going to use the money to change the world. To fight for arms control and human rights. To promote family planning and space exploration. He was going to give the money away, starting next year…
… Anderson was one of the driving forces behind MirCorp, which sought to privatize Russia’s decrepit Mir space station and arranged for an American financier to take an excursion in space. MirCorp’s ambitions were dashed with the station’s demise.
But Anderson has remained passionate about space. “I want to build my own space station since we lost the Mir,” he said. “I want to have a moon base.”
It also has some interesting quotes from Jeff Manber and Bob Werb.
I believe him. Unfortunately, the government doesn’t view that as a good reason to stash funds overseas.
It would be nice if we could get some philanthropy going in this area from some less flaky sources. One of the reasons that we’ve made so little progress is that the people with the money aren’t interested in space, and the people interested in space haven’t had the money, and when on the rare occasion you get someone with both, there’s some other problem. I hope that the Paul Allens and Jeff Bezos’ of the world will start to change that.
NASA Watch has links to this and related stories.
“I Want A Moon Base”
Whatever the merits of the case, Walt would seem to have a novel defense for his tax avoidance:
He was going to use the money to change the world. To fight for arms control and human rights. To promote family planning and space exploration. He was going to give the money away, starting next year…
… Anderson was one of the driving forces behind MirCorp, which sought to privatize Russia’s decrepit Mir space station and arranged for an American financier to take an excursion in space. MirCorp’s ambitions were dashed with the station’s demise.
But Anderson has remained passionate about space. “I want to build my own space station since we lost the Mir,” he said. “I want to have a moon base.”
It also has some interesting quotes from Jeff Manber and Bob Werb.
I believe him. Unfortunately, the government doesn’t view that as a good reason to stash funds overseas.
It would be nice if we could get some philanthropy going in this area from some less flaky sources. One of the reasons that we’ve made so little progress is that the people with the money aren’t interested in space, and the people interested in space haven’t had the money, and when on the rare occasion you get someone with both, there’s some other problem. I hope that the Paul Allens and Jeff Bezos’ of the world will start to change that.
NASA Watch has links to this and related stories.
“I Want A Moon Base”
Whatever the merits of the case, Walt would seem to have a novel defense for his tax avoidance:
He was going to use the money to change the world. To fight for arms control and human rights. To promote family planning and space exploration. He was going to give the money away, starting next year…
… Anderson was one of the driving forces behind MirCorp, which sought to privatize Russia’s decrepit Mir space station and arranged for an American financier to take an excursion in space. MirCorp’s ambitions were dashed with the station’s demise.
But Anderson has remained passionate about space. “I want to build my own space station since we lost the Mir,” he said. “I want to have a moon base.”
It also has some interesting quotes from Jeff Manber and Bob Werb.
I believe him. Unfortunately, the government doesn’t view that as a good reason to stash funds overseas.
It would be nice if we could get some philanthropy going in this area from some less flaky sources. One of the reasons that we’ve made so little progress is that the people with the money aren’t interested in space, and the people interested in space haven’t had the money, and when on the rare occasion you get someone with both, there’s some other problem. I hope that the Paul Allens and Jeff Bezos’ of the world will start to change that.
NASA Watch has links to this and related stories.
The Lynch Mob
Now some Democrats are demanding that Hiawatha Bray be fired from the Globe.
Again, I don’t think there’d be a problem if he had been critical of the president, instead of John Kerry.
Bloggers Are Good For Journalists
That’s what Ralph Kinney Bennett says. For the good ones, at least:
It’s precisely because good journalism is hard that I love bloggers.
They are always ready to pounce. Whether you’re CBS News or the Daily Bugle, they will not let you get by on the cheap. They teach you by their native wisdom. They teach you by their ignorance.
They can be immensely unfair and incredibly stupid. They open up new vistas for you and force you to consider sometimes cockeyed perspectives that end up giving you more perspective.
They bring the world to a screen right in front of your eyes — in all its uncouth, elegant, raw, funny, revolting, thoughtful, partisan, passionate, tedious, upsetting, amazing, predictable, biased, sordid, elemental, ethereal, exhaustive, cynical, hopeful, delightful, excruciating variety.
And they are providing a venue for some thoughtful, fresh, clever writers who otherwise might have taken a while to find their way into print.
Pompous journalists are disdainful of blogs because they feel threatened by them. They are like members of the Raccoon Lodge and the bloggers just barreled into the ritual room and tore open the curtains and they all look slightly ridiculous in their epaulets and tin pot hats and braided swallowtail coats.
Also, this:
The unmasking of “the li’l Injun that could” set me to thinking. Can you imagine what a job freewheeling bloggers would have done on Adolf Hitler as he was on his “way up?”
Or (not that I’m making any comparisons here) Bill Clinton?